Brian Allain

Team of Rivals

From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant In the 1830s, Lincoln was striving to be the DeWitt Clinton of Illinois, referencing a U.S. senator and New York governor who spearheaded the construction of the Erie canal. When Lincoln withdrew from his first Senate race to help Lyman Trumbull win

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Listen for Him

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE QUESTION IS not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God’s things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing through which God cannot speak – even the walk from the house

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Changing Our Minds

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney What counts as dangerous ignorance or outdated dogma? What qualifies as a malignant tradition, defunct politics, or a misguided practice? What norms are so harmful, what beliefs are so incorrect that, once we know how to change minds, we should

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